India's Prime Minister, Narendra Modi made his first trip to the capital of Himalayan Kashmir on Thursday to support his party in the local elections. This is the first time that the disputed area has been in a local election since New Delhi revoked the region's semi-autonomy in 2019.

Voters queued outside polling stations in India's Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday to vote in the first provincial election being held in a decade in the Himalayan region that has grappled with years of militant violence.